The impeachment motion against Judiciary fast recoiling on the Rajapakse family rule – first massive protest closes the Fort for traffic
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2012, 5.00PM) The first massive protest procession of the people against the impeachment motion brought by the Rajapakse regime began yesterday(05) afternoon at the Colombo Courts complex and went on up to the Fort. This procession was organized by the Democratic people’s Front and many thousands of protestors took part in it. Chiefs of the Legal profession , professional Associations and artistes partook in the procession.

Owing to the unexpected large crowds the roads leading to Fort were closed for traffic. Anura Dissanayake , the JVP M.P. sternly said, this wrongful impeachment motion against the judiciary shall be rightly converted into an impeachment against the Rajapakse family rule. He urged everyone to support this counter move burying party , race and other differences. This protest procession is a broad based Organization which came out to the streets today as a Democratic people’s campaign to stop the Rajapakse family rule in its tracks, he added.

The megalomania of the unhinged Rajapakses that they there is nothing that they cannot do began their second term by murdering journalists, causing their disappearances, breaking their limbs, setting fire to media Institutions, chasing away media personnel from their motherland and making a joke of them . Now , the bestial family rule is trying the same pranks with the judiciary , Dissanayake asserted.

Was an impeachment motion brought under Section 107 of JR’s dictatorship mad constitution because of the dictatorial mania of today’s MR ? he asked. Section 107 refers to inequity. But today who is talking about the inequity of the chief justice ? It is spoken by Pavithra Wanniarachchi , a mad discarded clown . What a country is this and where is it headed ? When Anura Dissanayake questioned this , the large crowd assembled who knew well about Pavithra’s putrid background hooted and jeered at Pavithra’s chaste pretence .
Dr. Chandragupta Thenuwara , the film and stage artiste who addressed the protest rally said, the period of the people remaining quiet and in slumber is over . When the people’s precious inalienable rights are being dismantled one after another before their own eyes , they cannot remain silent . They must awake and come forward in this struggle discarding differences and distinctions, he pointed out.

Attorney at law Sunil Watagala of the Janatha Lawyers Association also spoke.

(More photographs of the people’s protest campaign appear